On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:58:41 +0100, "Ophelia" >
wrote:

>brooklyn1 wrote:
>> "sf" wrote
>>>
>>> So, what you're really saying is home ground will taste like store
>>> bought if you let it sit for... how long?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If it's the prepackaged stuff one normally buys from the stupidmarket,
>> you're talking at least a week, probably more like two-three weeks...
>> because they don't grind cuts like roasts... first they wait until the
>> roasts pass the sell-by date and they turn those into smaller cuts
>> like steaks, than after the steaks pass the sell-by date they turn
>> that into generic stew meat, then after the stew meat passes its sell-
>> by date they finally grind it but not before adding all the scraps
>> and trimmings they saved from the previous day. When I say
>> preground is mystery meat it's truly MYSTERY meat.. now I just
>> exposed some of the mystery but only the tip of the iceberg.
>
>G*d help me... but he is right!!
>
If it's true (most likely not), the only thing I'd be worried about is
all those missed sell by dates because I don't care what cut of meat
goes into hamburger.

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